Themes in Hume

The Self, the Will, Religion

Terence Penelhum

Description

Terence Penelhum has since the 1950s been a leading contributor to studies of the thought of David Hume; he now presents a selection of the best of his essays on Hume, most of them quite recent, three of them not published elsewhere. The central themes of the book are selfhood, the will, and religious belief. Penelhum's view of Hume will be fascinating for all who work on these themes, whether from an eighteenth-century or a twentieth-century perspective.

Themes in Hume

The Self, the Will, Religion

Terence Penelhum

Table of Contents

1. David Hume: An Appreciation2. Hume on Personal Identity3. Hume's Theory of the Self Revisited4. Self-identity and Self-regard5. The Self of Book I and the Selves of Book II6. Hume, Identity and Selfhood7. Hume's Moral Psychology8. Hume and the Freedom of the Will9. Hume's Scepticism and the Dialogues10. Natural Belief and Religious Belief in Hume's Philosophy11. Religion in the Enquiry and After12. Butler and Hume13. Human Nature and Truth: Hume and PascalReferencesIndes

Themes in Hume

The Self, the Will, Religion

Terence Penelhum

Reviews and Awards

"Penelhum is an influential, creative, and careful interpreter of Hume...Penelhum has a remarkable knack for appreciating, and indeed sympathizing with, Hume's naturalistic and secularizing aims and defending the details of some of Hume's more tangled arguements."--thics